Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
– Meg Greenfield
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
– Meg Greenfield
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.